Pagri

Quick meaning: Pagri is a noun meaning (India) A headdress worn by men in India, comprising a several-metre-long band of fabric wound around the head.

Meaning

(India) A headdress worn by men in India, comprising a several-metre-long band of fabric wound around the head.

More Meanings

1. (India) A puggry.
2. (India, Pakistan) A payment made to secure the long-term rental of a property.

Example Sentences

I recognized the eldest Miss Copleigh, because she had a pagri round her helmet, and the younger had not.

The poor labourer was at first somewhat astonished, and frightened by this sudden metamorphosis, but soon overcoming the new feeling, he carefully tied the ruby in his pagri or turban, and returned home […]

A pagri was a form of "illegal payment" that had developed to circumvent colonial rent restrictions. Landlords demanded a large lump-sum payment in lieu of the low monthly rent, and this also made it very difficult for refugees without means to rent houses in the city.

'People look at my pagri and you can kind of tell from the way they look and behave and from their body language. My pagri gives me away and I feel that people react strangely to it. Some people laugh at you because of your pagri. Others say, "You are wearing a nice hat," or something like that. Fellow students don't know a thing about the Sikh religion […].'

Word Forms

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Synonyms for pagri

Depending on context, synonyms include turban.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pamri, pagari, saafa, headband, shamla, madras.

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